The Delta independent., 1887-03-01
TELEGRAPH BRETTTIES.

Another call for $10,000,000 three
per cents has been issued.
The Queens son-in-law, the Prince
of Battenburg, has the smallpox.
1t is reported that the smallpox has
broken out among the Topolobambo colon
lists.
Judge Smith Treat, Of the United
States District Court at st. Louis, has re-
signed.
There is a strong beliefin New York
that DR.. McGlynn will be restored to his
church again.
The warden of the Indiana peniten
tiary Is short In his accounts between s60-
600 and $4,000.
A bill has passed the Kansas Legisla-
ture TO change the name of st. John county
to Logan county.
Senator Ingalls, has been selected by
the Republican caucus as president pro tenn
pore of the Senate.
The German elections which took
place last Monday were SO close that it will
will be known.
Italy was visited by severe earth
quake or the 23d. At Cervo 800 persons
were killed by 5eing buried in the ruins of
falling buildings.
A treaty has been signed with the
Piegans in Montana which reduces the size
of their reservation and will open a vast
country to settlers.
Nearly all the leading railroads of
the East have decided to conform with
the requirements OF the new Interstate
Commerce law.
Gen. .Cerro Gordo" Williams, of
Kentucky, is the first person to receive the
benefit of the Mexican Pension act. He is
entitled to S per month.
| The miners of Kimberley, New Zea-
| land, out of revenge for the death of one of
their number, perpetrated terrible slaugh-
ter among the blacks in their vicinity.
Stanley writes from Africa that Por-
tugal is acting in a high-handed manner in
that part of the world and he thinks Eng
land and Germany should cry hands of. :"
Senator Sherman has resigned as
President pro TEN of the Senate. 1t is
thought that either Senator Hoar or Sena-
tor Ingalls, will be rleIted as his successor.
The Legislature of West Virginia
has voted to submit to vote of the people
a constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors.
The head of rich Christian family
in China was executed at Sechuen, China,
despite tle remonstances of the French
Minister. Prosecutions are said TO be in
creasing there.
The editor of a Berlin paper has been
sentenced to a months Imprisonment for
printing a story that the Gar had shot a
military attache of the German legation at
ST. Petersburg.
| In whirlwind on ST. Johns river.
Florida, a schooner was lifted bodily from
the water and dashed TO pieces, drowning
every soul on board. The name of the YES
sci is unknown.
The men who We're engaged in the
recent strike in New York have applied to
the Exc ecutive Board OF the Knights of La
Dor for $1,000 with which TO procure the
necessities of life.
| The widow of General Logan has
chosen site in South Park, Chicago. for
the Generals final resting place, and where
the monument which is to be erected by the
State will be built.
The managers of the Trans-Conti-
mental roads say they will do nothing to
meet the Interstate Commerce bill until
what they call ..relief'' is obtained from
the Commissioners.
The newspapers of Paris are iubi-
liant over the result of the election in Al
sace-Lorraine. They say that Germany is
not able to obtain the hearts of the inhabi-
tants of the annexed provinces.
The managers of the trans-continent-
al lines hope to be able to secure conces-
sions from the Interstate Commerce Com
mission by which their through business
and local traffic may be preserved.
The Governments receipts so far
this month amount to an average of over
\ q, 900, 600 a day. The expenditures have
been unusually heavy, the pension pay.
ments amounting to about SO, 100000.
The knights of Labor and the Anal
gamated Association are at war over the
strike of the irun-workers at Mingo juno.
tion, Ohio, and the bitter feeling between
| the two societies threatens to be permanent.
The Military Committee of the House
has agreed to recommend the appropriation
of g, ,0O0, 900 for gun factory for heavy ord
nance, ETC., to be expended under the di.
rection of board to be appointed by the
President.
| President Andrew ID. White. of Cor
nell University. has telegraphed to Presi-
dent Cleveland declining to allow the use
| of his name in connection with the forma.
tion ofthe ecommission under the Interstate
Commerce act.
A train on the Utah and Nevada
railroad was blown off the track about
thirty miles from Salt Lake City, and Con
ductor Adam Brown instantly killed. A
large number of passengers were also Sc
verely shaken up,
The Union Labor Convention at Gin.
cinnati adjourned sine die after giving per
mission to some of their Southern delegates